Talk:Any Old Iron (novel)

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I humbly submit that Any Old Iron is one of the most important books in the late period of Anthony Burgess, a vitally significant 20th century British novelist.

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It was also the song used in a 1992 advert [1] for hammerite all weather gloss. it went "Any old Iron, Any old iron, any old iron, any any any old iron, its all alright with hammerite, on iron...on iron" perferomed by Chas and Dave could this be added here or should I start a Hammerite Disambiguation? --I don't like football 00:34, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

the song's been around for much longer than the book so i think it should get an article as it's so well known 139.184.30.19 02:11, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot 08:57, 7 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Neither of the two reviews on which this Wikipedia entry relies mentions Manchester, except in passing in a paragraph close to its end. Of the two, the New York Times review, written from a telephone interview with Burgess, discusses the ideas rather more than the novel. The other follows the same route. The Wikipedia article follows by not mentioning the place at all. The city was Burgess's birthplace, and he studied at its University (it only had one then). Burgess was also a great decoder of cities in general, as his writing on Joyce's Dublin shows. None of his other locations in this book is presented with the geographical particularity he uses here in writing about his birthplace. Could it be that an improvement in balance is needed?Delahays (talk) 14:31, 13 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]